• Is there a life after the Upwork suspension?

    Hey freelancers! Not everyone knows that #Upwork has the term "hold" and "suspension". Usually, when your account was put on hold - it's a temporary solution to resolve some problems. A suspension is something more serious to block your work on a marketplace for a long time/forever. This usually happens when you acted wrongly or against Upwork rules. Sometimes, you are getting a not fair email about the suspension. Here is a HOWTO instruction in this case:- read Upwork Terms and Conditions-…
  • Testing matters!

    Lack of testing leads to decrease of the quality of a software product, to a constant increase of the cost of quality assurance due to the occurrence of defects, to the customers’ loss as they don’t wish to use a low-quality product. Laravel has PHPUnit integration right from the box. Framework allows us to use a lot of assert-methods and helpers to simplify the apps testing. Many of Laravel apps are doing the backend logic and allowing JS-frameworks such as…
  • To a Sales manager and beyond

    IT sales manager position has become extremely popular and much-in-demand. But having met a bunch of different sales managers, I’ve noticed that a lot of them are convinced the job implies only selling and pushing a product to a client. But is that actually so? I’d say a sales manager should be like a universal soldier, combining the qualities of a sales and marketing manager, as well as a project manager at times, and sometimes even be a super junior developer :) Be…